By Michael, on March 28th, 2006
The trailing credits rolled up on the video. We looked at each other. “That was great!” Then … You want a ride? Sweetie? You’re feeling better? (she’s been sick) The videos are due tonight Oh, that kind of ride. One of my favorites. A quick zip up to Woodstock and the video store. It’s one [...] . . . → Read More: Gettin’ Lucky
By Michael, on March 27th, 2006
Yesterday I went on a 200K ride. Around mile 93 or so I became nauseous and had to stop to throw up. Now there are times when an occasional upchuck is good for you. This was not one of those times. A cycle started: stop, retch, rinse, repeat. I thought a banana might settle my [...] . . . → Read More: Kindness of Strangers
By Michael, on March 27th, 2006
I pre-rode the Forest Grove to Birkenfeld route (next weekend’s 200K for Oregon Randonneurs) yesterday. At least most of it (see the surronding posts for more on that) and emailed this description of the route off to the OR Randonneurs email list I pre-rode the Forest Grove – Birkenfeld 200K route yesterday. You are in [...] . . . → Read More: Forest Grove to Birkenfeld
By Michael, on March 26th, 2006
Kent Peterson once observed that I’m out of phase with normal randonneurs. Rather than spending time before a brevet identifying and planning for trouble spots I ride merrily along projecting eventual success. Rather than spending time in a ride working out how to reach the next short term destination I project out to the end [...] . . . → Read More: What Not To Do
By Michael, on March 2nd, 2006
Perl Best Practices (PBP) by Damian Conway is a collection of 256 short essays on how to code well. Damian’s advice is geared toward creating solid, bug free, maintainable code. Three observations about the book: PBP tells you how to write good Perl until you have enough experience to know better. Then you’ll write Perl [...] . . . → Read More: Perl Best Practices
By Michael, on March 1st, 2006
This morning on the ride in to work I noticed there was a bit of wind. Not a strong wind, but more than a breeze. It took conscious effort to keep my speed up to the pace I normally just spin out for a relaxed commute. Arriving at work I checked in with Weather Underground [...] . . . → Read More: It’s Working
By Michael, on March 1st, 2006
A major distraction in my life that detours me away from riding a bicycle is my former morning routine asserting itself. Get up, get the paper, putter around in the house in my bathrobe, check email, update a couple of web pages, more puttering until ohmygawd it’s time to go to work, half an hour [...] . . . → Read More: Motivational Tip #60301
By Michael, on February 27th, 2006
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been obsessed with a project. It is called FUT. This obsession started over a year ago when Randal Schwartz gave a presentation called You Had Me at Helo. It’s about spam fighting specifically and in general about shutting the door on miscreants who attempt to use your computer [...] . . . → Read More: Obsession – FUT
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